Pin-ticket.



W. LIVINGSTON.

PIN TICKET.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 29; 1913. 1,093,638. Patented Apr; 21, 191;

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VJILLIAM LIVINGSTON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, T0 NOESTING PIN TICKET COMPANY, INC., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

PIN-TICKET.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM LIvrNesroN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York city, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Pin-Tickets, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to pin-tickets or price-tickets, that is tickets provided with pins by which they may be readily fixed to articles of merchandise for being marked with the price, style, number, etc.

My invention relates particularly to that class of pin-tickets in which the wire is bent upon itself to form a rounded-end pin which tends to separate the fibers of the fabrics 1n place of penetrating the fibers as do the majority of pin-tickets. Heretofore, in tickets of this class difliculty has been experienced in having the pins remain attached to the ticket. My present invention very readily overcomes this disadvantage, while, at the same time, affording all of the advantages of the rounded end of the double shank pin.

In the drawing forming part of this specification, Figure l is a perspective view of the pin which I use just before it is applied to the ticket; Fig. 2 is view of the lower side of the ticket showing the pin attached thereto; and Fig. 3 shows the upper side of the ticket with the pin attached.

In carrying out my invention I provide a piece of wire which is bent at the central point A, Fig. 1, s0 that for a predetermined distance the two pieces of wire lie in close proximity, forming the double shank B-B of the pin. The wire at a predetermined point is then bent at an angle to the shank B B to form the members C-C, preferably arranged at an acute angle to each other. At a predetermined point the wire is again bent so as to form the members DD, which members lie substantially in the same line. At the end of said members DD, which may be of any desired length,

the wire is again bent so as to form. the

members EE which, if prolonged, would meet at a common point. At the end of the members EE from opposite the point where they engage with the members DD, the free ends of the wire are bent to form parallel members F-F, preferably of equal length. By bending the wire, as stated Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed April 29, 1913.

Patented Apr. 21, 1914.

Serial No. 764,330.

above, a base is provided for the underside of the ticket so that when the pin is attached to the ticket it is held rigidly in place.

Thepin is applied to the ticket by placing the pin and its supporting base, as shown in Fig. 1, on the underside of the ticket, bending the members F-F around the edge of the ticket, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, and then the free ends of the members I -F are passed through openings in the ticket and folded over toward the edge of the ticket upon the members DD, as shown in Fig. 2, thus securely holding the pin in engagement with the ticket.

While I have shown and described the preferred form of my pin-ticket, modifications may readily be made without departing from the invention, as desired.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In a pin-ticket, a ticket, a pin formed of a wire bent upon itself to form a doubleshank pin, said wire at a predetermined point being bent to form a support for the ticket, the free ends of said wire being bent around the ticket and through same, and being folded over upon a part of the wire forming said support.

2. In a pin-ticket, a ticket, a pin formed by bending a piece of wire upon itself to form a double-shank pin, said wire at a predetermined point being bent at an angle to said shank to form a support for the ticket, the free ends of said wire being arranged substantially parallel to each other and folded around and passed through said ticket and engaging with a portion of said support.

8. In a pin-ticket, a ticket, a pin formed by bending a piece of wire upon itself to form a double-shank pin, said wire at a predetermined point being bent at an angle to said shank, and being again folded at a predetermined point so that two portions of the wire are provided lying in substantially the same line, the free ends of said wire being folded around a portion of said ticket, penetrating same, and brought into engagement with the wire on the underside of the ticket.

4t. In a pin ticket, a ticket, a wire bent upon itself to form a double-shank pin, said wire being bent at a predetermined point so as to form a base for the underside of the name to this specification, in the presence of tlcket, the free ends of said Wire bent around two subscribing witnesses. and passed through said tlcket and folded T 1 w w T upon the support 011 the underside of the WILLIAM LIVIBUSIOB' ticket, all so arranged that said pin is held \Vitnesses:

firmly in engagement with said ticket. GEO. W. MILLs, J12,

In testimony whereof, I have signed my EDWIN SEGER.

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